Stove-oven shelf.



j. TOWART, JR.

STOVE OVEN SHELF.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 31,1916.

L21 1 9%, Patentmi Jan. 9,1917.

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OFFICE.

JOHN TOWART, JR, or PEEKSKILL, NEW YORK.

STOVE-OVEN SHELF.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN TOWART, Jr., a citizen of the United States,and resident of Peekskill, in the county of Westchester and State of NewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stove- OvenShelves, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates particularly, but is not limited to shelves instove ovens; and its object is to provide a roll-shelf that is pocketedwithin or adjacent to an oven; which is ready for use the instant it iswanted, and can be pushed out of the way, without other care, when it isnot needed.

The objects. are attained by the means set forth in this specificationand the accompanying drawings, in bothof which like letters and numeralsrefer to similar parts.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a stove oven with the roll-shelf appliedthereto.v

Fig. 2 is an elevation of a part of a stove oven showing shelf raceways.Fig. 3 is a plan of a portion of the roll-shelf. Fig. 1 is a perspectiveview of one of the bars composing the roll shelf. Fig. 5 showsperspectively a modification of the bar shown' in Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is afront elevation of a section of the oven shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 7 is asection of a shelf that is flexible in only one direction. Fig. 8 is abottom view of the parts shown in Fig. 7. Fig. 9 indicates how multipleshelves are provided for.

As the invention relates to the ovens of stoves, only the oven and fluespaces are shown. Fig. 1 represents an oven a with a top 0, a back walle and a bottom d. Between the top 0 and the top 0 of the stove, is aflue space 8, and between the back wall 6 and the outer wall 6 of thestove is the flue s. The ribs 2' i i i constitute a raceway for theshelf extending across the oven,

upward at the back of the oven, and for-.

ward again at the top of the oven, forming a continuous passage 1 2 3for the shelf a roll-shelf. The corners where the horizontal ribs andthe vertical meet are rounded as at r r to adapt them to the flexibilityof the roll-shelf.

The stove oven is supposed to have the side toward the observer removed.A flexible shelf m is shown in place and as pushed partly out of theoven, the shelf as it is pushed moving from the raceway 1 to thevertical way 2 and the horizontal way 3. The shelf can be pushedentirely back until Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 9, 1917.

Application filed July 31, 1916. Serial No. 112,269.

the front bar 0 reaches the curve 1', when the shelf is entirely out ofthe way, but ready for use at any moment. In the position of the shelfas shown, there is a shelf 1 in the back half of the oven, and bydrawing the bar 0 to the front the shelf will completely divide theoven. The shelf is composed of a number of bars a n with curved sides,as in Figs. 1 and 4 which show their construction. The bars cannot beput together sidewise, but are united by sliding them together endwise,so that when they are in place in the oven they form a combination as inFigs. 1 and 3, and as partially shown in Fig. 6, that cannot come apart.Fig. 1 clearly shows the manner of their putting together.

A modified form of the bars a is shown in Fig. 5. A bar m has curvedportions n at each end, lessening the amount of weight in the shelf. Thebar between the curved ends is corrugated to give it stiffness, as at Z,Figs. 1 and 5. This means of linking the shelf bars is shown as onepractical construction, simple and inexpensive to make; but theinvention is not limited to a particular manner of obtaining a suitableflexibility of shelf. The forward part of the shelf m in Fig. 1 is aform of construction that admits of flexibility in but one direction;for the purposes of a shelf that may be partly drawn out of the oven.The sections it can be curved in an upward direction, but will stand outrigidly when unsupported, in Fig. 7. The line a represents the face ofthe oven, and the sections a afford an extension shelf. The constructionof the sections a is made plain in Fig. 8. The lugs 11 are integral withthe bars to, and teacl; lug is pivoted, as at y, to the bar next In Fig.1 the shelfis shown as occupying space wholly inside the oven. As shownin Fig. 2 the raceway 1 2 3 may have the portions 2 and 3 extended intothe flue spaces 8 ands outside of the oven walls f and e. The directionin which the shelf raceway is extended will be controlled by the form ofthe stove, and they can be made to carry the shelf downward instead ofupward as shown. In a duplication or multiplication of shelves in acompartment, the raceways can be made to overlap, as indicated in Fig.

9, t 6 representing overlapping raceways.

The thickness of the shelf as shown in Fig. 1, is an exageration for thepurpose of making the construction clear, In practice this form ofjointor hinge canbe usedwwhenl made quite flat, so that this roll-shelf willnot'occupy the space in an'oven'as is here "the roll-shelf Vcompartment'that is to be. div ded by removmade to appear; which is amatterof special importance in the. use of1 multiple. shelves,

- withioverlapping raceways.

While this invention has been described in its application tostoveovens, it is plain that is equally applicable to" any constitutinga slielfjthat will be self sup porting when drawn partly out of the.oven.

2. The combination with a'stove oven of raceways on the sldesof theoven, saldrace- .wvays extending'from-the oven into the flue space backof the oven thence upward in, saidflue space and forward over the top ofthe oven, anda flexible shelf-to traversesaid raceways, the: rear:portion-ofthe shelf composed of members hooked together, the forwardmembers of. the shelf comprising members flexible in only an upwarddirec- 7 tion,

ward end of the shelf made flexible in only 7 an upward direction.

4. Thecombmatlon wlth a stove oven of raceways on-the sides and"back ofthe oven,

the raceways ,lapping one over the other,

and a flexible shelf, the inner endof the shelf composed of membershooked together,

the forward members of the shelf flexible in only an upward direction. x

5(A flexible shelf for a stove oven comprising members consisting offlat, slitted tubes, joined together by uniting a, curve of one tubewith a, curve of a tube nextto it, the shapes of'the tubes renderingthem unseparable' sidewise, the tubes keptin place by the raceways inwhich they travel.

Signed'at Peekskill in the county of West- Chester and State of NewYork, this 27 day of July, 1916.

- J OHN' TOWART, JR. Witnesses:

FRE H. POLHELL, T. DUGAN, Jr

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